Internships

All three partners of the common office in Brussels offer young motivated people the opportunity to carry out an internship. The procedures and the candidate requirements are different for the three regions.

AUTONOMOUS PROVINCE OF BOLZANO/BOZEN - SOUTH TYROL

Attention: Please note that we do not offer internships in July and August.

Twice a year, the European Commission offers 5-month traineeships (March-July, October-February) in the fields of administration and written translation to 1.300 new graduates. Trainees will be awarded a monthly grant. The amount of which is decided by the Traineeships office.

The European Parliament offers 4 kinds of internships:1. “Robert Schuman” traineeships for university graduates in 3 options: general, for journalism and human rights (“Sakharov Prize”),2. Compulsory and non-compulsory training placements for high school graduates,3. Translation traineeships for university graduates (in Luxembourg),4. Translation training placements

Council of the European Union The Council of the European Union offers 100 paid traineeships a year to university graduates at the General Secretariat, each lasting 5 months (February-June, September-January) and 20 unpaid traineeships to third, fourth or fifth year university students who have to carry out a compulsory training period as part of their course.

Twice a year, the Court of Justice of the European Union offers 5-month traineeships (March-July, February-October). The traineeships take place in Luxembourg and candidates are required to have an excellent knowledge of the French language.

Starting from 2016, the European Court of Auditors organizes 3traineeship sessions per year, beginning on the 1st of February, the 1st of May and the 1st of September. They last up to 5 months and take place in Luxembourg.

Every 18 months, the European External Action Service opens a call for around 80 long-term traineeships (9 months) for young professionals, 2 per Member State, in one of the 139 EU delegations around the world.

Every year, NATO offers among others paid traineeships for graduates in Political Science, engineers, aeronautical engineers and media or journalism graduates. A profound knowledge of Russian, Ukrainian or Arabic is welcome.